2007-11-11 18:33:09 · 8 answers · asked by Paul R 2 in Health ➔ Diet & Fitness
If you eat a lot of peanuts or peanut butter, yes it will make you gain weight because peanuts are high in fat and fat is a concentrated source of calories. Fat contains 9 calories per gram while carbs and protein only have 4 calories per gram. This is why we give the starving children in Africa a product that contains a lot of peanut/peanut butter to help them gain weight.
2007-11-11 18:38:09 · answer #1 · answered by Thing 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well...anything can make you "fatter" per se. Some things more quickly than others. For example, if I eat 20 pounds of brocolli today, some of that will be stored as fat, but to gain the same amount of fat I could simply just eat 1 pound of milk chocolate (these are just rough estimates).
Peanut butter is fattening but mostly unsaturated fat from peanut oil, which isn't that bad. So while eating a lot of peanut butter can cause you to gain weight, you'd have to be eating a significant amount.
2007-11-12 02:41:08 · answer #2 · answered by bada_bing2k4 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Peanuts contain fat, but they don't not make you fatter unless you eat too much of them and don't burn off the calories, just like any other food.
2007-11-12 02:35:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My husband eats 2 peanut butter sandwiches(with butter not jelly) almost everyday for his lunch at work and as long as he expends more calories daily than he consumes he looses weight.
2007-11-12 02:37:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Strange question....only ONE peanut? Of course not. How does "WHAT" work?
2007-11-12 02:49:36 · answer #5 · answered by kingsley 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah. its good fat though not like mcdonalds fat. its healthy fat but too much of it will plump you up
2007-11-12 02:35:55 · answer #6 · answered by GG 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
It's a myth.
:)
Don't always trust what you hear.
2007-11-12 02:35:46 · answer #7 · answered by starrynight 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no
2007-11-12 02:36:09 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋